Ex parte IGARASHI et al. - Page 4




                  Appeal No. 1995-3499                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 07/757,342                                                                                                              
                  accorded the benefit of the foreign filing dates.  Clarification of this issue appears to be                                            
                  critical in view of the teachings of PCT application WO 90/13643, of record in the file.  See                                           
                  Paper No. 15.  Attention is directed to p. 14 of the PCT which discusses the conservation                                               
                  of the structure and sequence between various mammalian LH/CG receptors and how the                                                     
                  cDNA sequence of  the rat LH/CG receptor (shown in Figure 6), can be used to isolate the                                                
                  human LH/GC receptor.  The examiner should consider the relevance of these teachings.                                                   
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